Orient

"The greatest importance of the word 'Orient' in 19th-century thinking," observes ASO music director Leon Botstein, "was as a source of inspiration and self-definition among Western artists and writers."

Go East, Monsieur Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2012

While all the diamond cutters in Europe are licensed and carefully watched, the Orient is a different matter altogether.

2008 December « Official Harry Harrison News Blog 2008

While all the diamond cutters in Europe are licensed and carefully watched, the Orient is a different matter altogether.

Spell of Magic – Part 8 « Official Harry Harrison News Blog 2008

Joshua, my understanding that the only appropriate time to use the word Orient is in reference to food.

Matthew Yglesias » The View From Your Breakfast 2007

That vast stretch of opal islands; jade continents; sapphire seas of strange sunsets; mysterious masses of brown-skinned humanity; brown-eyed, full-breasted, full-lipped and full-hipped women; which we call the Orient, can only be caught by the photographer's art in flash-light pictures.

Flash-lights from the Seven Seas Francis John McConnell 1917

The Orient is beginning to show what an important factor it will become, under Western supervision, in the creation of surplus value.

THE QUESTION OF THE MAXIMUM 2010

(“Arabian Society,” etc., before quoted) to mine will know as much of the Moslem East and more than many Europeans who have spent half their lives in Orient lands.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

On Saturday morning, cars began pulling into the gravel parking lot of a one-story American Legion hall in Orient, Ill., about 30 miles northeast of Carbondale, for a memorial service.

Archive 2005-08-01 KaneCitizen 2005

So far as the Orient is concerned the Dove of Peace finds it very difficult to be heard above the cannon's roar.

Disarmament 1933

Again, our trade with the Orient is now of sufficient volume to make us watch Manchuria with an increasingly anxious eye.

The Manchurian Crisis 1932